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Invention in Rhetoric and Composition
Contributor(s): Lauer, Janice M. (Other), Pender, Kelly (Contribution by)

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 ISBN: 193255906X     ISBN-13: 9781932559064
Publisher: Parlor Press
OUR PRICE: $31.30  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2003
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Annotation: In this scholarly work, Lauer examines issues that have surrounded historical and contemporary theories and pedagogies of rhetorical invention, citing a wide array of positions on these issues in both primary rhetorical texts and secondary interpretations. Her book presents theoretical disagreements over the nature, purpose, and epistemology of invention and pedagogical debates over such issues as the relative importance of art, talent, imitation, and practice in teaching discourse.

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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric
- Poetry | European - Italian
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General
Dewey: 851.912
LCCN: 2003115230
Series: Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.90 lbs) 276 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Italy
Features: Annotated, Bibliography, Glossary, Index
 
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Invention in Rhetoric and Composition examines issues that have surrounded historical and contemporary theories and pedagogies of rhetorical invention, citing a wide array of positions on these issues in both primary rhetorical texts and secondary interpretations. It presents theoretical disagreements over the nature, purpose, and epistemology of invention and pedagogical debates over such issues as the relative importance of art, talent, imitation, and practice in teaching discourse. After a discussion of treatments of invention from the Sophists to the nineteenth century, Invention in Rhetoric and Composition introduces a range of early twentieth-century multidisciplinary theories and calls for invention's awakening in the field of English studies. It then showcases inventional theories and pedagogies that have emerged in the field of Rhetoric and Composition over the last four decades, including the ensuing research, critiques, and implementations of this inventional work. As a reference guide, the text offers a glossary of terms, an annotated bibliography of selected texts, and an extensive bibliography. Janice M. Lauer is Professor of English, Emerita at Purdue University, where she was the Reece McGee Distinguished Professor of English. In 1998, she received the College Composition and Communication Conference's Exemplar Award. Her publications include Four Worlds of Writing: Inquiry and Action in Context, Composition Research: Empirical Designs, and New Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention, as well as essays on rhetorical invention, disciplinarity, writing as inquiry, composition pedagogy, historical rhetoric, and empirical research.
 
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